Radeon 9200 PCI vs HD 6450 GDDR5

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in performance ranking1079not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.01no data
ArchitectureTerascale 2 (2009−2015)Rage 7 (2001−2006)
GPU code nameCaicosRV280
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date18 April 2011 (13 years ago)1 May 2003 (21 year ago)
Current price$129 $259

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores160no data
Core clock speed750 MHz250 MHz
Number of transistorsno data36 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)27 Watt28 Watt
Texture fill rateno data1.000

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interfaceno dataPCI
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5DDR
Maximum RAM amount1 GB128 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz400 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data6.4 GB/s
Shared memory-no data

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectorsno data1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

List of supported graphics and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX118.1
OpenGLno data1.4
OpenCLno dataN/A
Vulkanno dataN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 18 April 2011 1 May 2003
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 128 MB
Chip lithography 40 nm 150 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 27 Watt 28 Watt

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 6450 GDDR5 and Radeon 9200 PCI. We've got no test results to judge.


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